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Ooops.


In another post I was complaining about how lower case L and the number ONE look the same.
Usually capitol I has the same problem.

I was shown how to change the font and I did.

While doing this I thought to myself:  "Make a backup" but as my mind set was in Arduino mode, there is no way of making commented lines.

So I couldn't/didn't.

I changed for font and it sort of worked.
There is a subtle difference between l and 1 which may be enough, but the rest of the formatting is now kaput.
a line of /'s becomes a bit fuzzy, and "ASCII art"/logos/headers what ever, become corrupt.

I changed two lines with the word FONT in them.  One near the top and one a bit further down.
I was looking for editorfont and changed the first one I saw.

I like the "Times new roman" font, and tried that.

It works, but as said other problems happen and so I may have to put up with the horrible original font.
But what is/was it?

Please.



editor.font.macosx=Times,12
preproc.web_colors=true
export.application.platform=true
update.check=true
update.id=6461665999815212812
editor.indent=true
serial.stopbits=1
serial.databits=8
editor.font=Times,plain,12
editor.window.height.default=600

[Reply #1 on:]

"Monospaced" is the default, I believe.  You should be able to just delete that line from the preferences and have it default to the default, so to speak.  I think.

You really want a Fixed-Width font for coding (like Courier, and NOT like Times.)  There have been some articles about this, for example: http://hivelogic.com/articles/top-10-programming-fonts/

I believe that there are also complaints about the way the IDE renders fonts; not doing smoothing, or somesuch.  I tried some of the fonts mentioned in the article above on my mac, and they didn't look very good.

[Reply #2 on:]

you can change font smoothing options in preferences.txt

editor.antialias=false

[Reply #3 on:]

I bundled this beautiful and modern MS Segoe UI Monospaced
http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,118440.0.html

[Reply #4 on:]

You have to use the full name of of the font. If it's called Times New Roman, then that is what you need to put in the editor.font entry.

[Reply #5 on:]

You might consider using this font: http://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?store=OLS-US&event=displayFontPackage&code=1960
It's free/open source, monospace and has good disambiguation of 0/o/O and 1/l/I -- well suited to coding.

[Reply #6 on:]

I use DejaVu Sans Mono, it's pretty nice with a dot in the centre of the 0 so it's real easy to tell from a O.



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Rob